Or Netherlandith Hefperides. 45 
fair Tree of the fame in his Gare 
den ; we have likewife afterward 
~ received one.among other Trees 
from. Genoa; and_ufe yet. daily as 
much Diligence, as is poffible to 
increafe the number of the feve- 
ral Sorts and Kinds, for the Or- 
nament of our Netherlandifh He 
' perides. 
CHAP, XIV, 
Of the Lima,. 
Mong the Kinds and Sorts 
. A of Limons, called Lima, 
' . wethave had as yet no other but 
the Sweet: the Tree hath brittle 
Wood, the Boughs are light 
Green, fet wich {mall Prickles 
D4 in 
Or Netherlandith Helperides. 42 
~ the common Injuries of this Cli- 
mate patiently ; what makes this 
Tree acceptable is its Fruitfulnefs, 
and the pleafant Lovelinefs of irs 
Apples; which are fic and good 
to cool the immoderate Heat of 
Burning-Feavers. 
oa 
CHAP. XV, 
Of Adam's Apple, or the or 
 dinary Black Limon, 
#H E Tree which produ- shape. 
ces the ordinary dam’s 
Apple, hath his Boughs armed 
with many long and ftrong Prick- 
les ; the Wood is brittle and apr 
to break ; grows in nogood Form, 
and cannot but with great Labour 
be 
48 
in ome ‘places ,~ hath: Jerigifl 
Leaves, as they of the ordinary. 
Limon ,°light Greew; and the 
Edgesa little jagged’; being rub- 
bed'give'a pleafant Sent orSmell; 
the Bloflom is fmallerthen of o- © 
ther Limons, of a white Colour, 
~ tike-untothe Orange Dwarf; the — 
Fruit is round at the end, witha 
little Nipple pointing out, of the — 
bignefs as an ordinary middle 
fized Orange; The outward Pill — 
is very thin and {mooth, ofa plea~ 
fant Smell, -Yellowith, with a 
thin inward Pill; the Pulp is of a: 
Brimftong Colour, \and divided 
by feven, and fometimes eight 
Veins or Partitions, of a very. 
fweet Taft: this. Pruic we have 
often had tipe in thefe Countries; 
and it isnot to be doubted. but o- 
ther forts of Lima would likewife 
thrive well in Netherland, in te- 
‘gard it doth endure and withftand © 
ey the 
2 
-The' Belgick, 
be kept to. a good Head; the 
Leaves are: dark Green, of Fafhi- 
on Oval or longifh Round, a lite 
tle Curled, and have many times 
atthe beginning alittle Hart or 
Foot, as the Orange Leaves; the 
Bloffoms come forth abundantly 
thereon, larger then the Orange 
Bloflom, within White,and-with- 
out with reddifh Streaks, weak 
of Sent; the Fruit is Roundifh, a 
little dinted'at the Top and be- 
low, twice as large as the com- 
mon Orange, mn a perfect Gold 
Colour; ‘the outward Pill is a lit- 
tlerough and jagged, the inward 
Pill moderately thick, pleafant of 
~ Taft ; The Pulp is of a Brimftone 
Colour, pleafantly Sowre, divi- - 
ided by eleven or twelve Veins or 
Partitions; Thefe Fruits we have 
had here in this County in: a fair 
and warm Summer ripe almoft in 
one Year,as fuch happened 1670; 
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